▌The South Korean court approved the detention order for Yin Xiyue

In the early morning of the 19th local time, the Western District Court in Seoul, South Korea issued a detention order for President Yin Xiyue. Yoon Seok-yue became the first president in South Korea's constitutional history to be detained and investigated as a sitting president. The Seoul Western District Court pointed out that "the suspect is suspected of destroying evidence" and therefore issued a detention order for him. His detention can last up to 20 days.

▌White House Cryptocurrency Director-designate: A new era of U.S. cryptocurrency innovation has just begun

According to news on January 18, David, the White House AI and Cryptocurrency Director appointed by Trump Sacks said that the reign of terror against cryptocurrencies is over and a new era of cryptocurrency innovation in the United States has just begun.

As of press time, according to Coingecko data:

BTC’s recent transaction price was US$104,413, with an intraday increase or decrease of +0.1%;

ETH’s recent price The transaction price was US$3,345.10, with an intraday increase or decrease of -3.4%;

BNB’s latest transaction price was 7 12.18 US dollars, with an intraday increase or decrease of +0.8%;

SOL’s recent transaction price was 254.72 US dollars, with an intraday increase or decrease of +16.2%;

DOGE’s recent transaction price was 0.401 yuan, with an intraday increase or decrease The increase or decrease was -6.1%;

XPR’s recent transaction price was US$3.24, with an intraday increase or decrease of -3.6%.

▌Texas senator plans to challenge IRS crypto tax regulations

According to News.bitcoin, a Republican senator from Texas Congressman Ted Cruz plans to use the Congressional Review Act (CRA) next week to challenge a tax regulation that infringes on the rights of cryptocurrency brokers. The move was seen not just as a procedural tactic but as a principled stance against the expansion of power into areas of free enterprise and technological innovation. The regulation drew heavy criticism from the cryptocurrency industry, which decried it as an arbitrary expansion of the scope of the term “broker.” This overreach misrepresents the decentralized nature of these platforms, stifles the spirit of innovation, and punishes those who dare to challenge traditional systems. In December, three advocacy groups filed a lawsuit against the regulation, exposing its heavy compliance burden.

▌Massachusetts has introduced two bills on Bitcoin strategic reserves

Cointelegraph published an article stating that Massachusetts has introduced two more bills on Bitcoin strategic reserves.

▌Shanghai: Build high-quality data infrastructure such as blockchain and corpus, and create universal cross-chain functions

January 18th, Shanghai The Municipal People's Office issued the "Shanghai Implementation Plan to Promote the High-Quality Development of Digital Trade and Service Trade", which proposed the layout of high-performance computing infrastructure. Build high-energy cloud computing data center clusters and open computing powerPlatform and computing power interconnection platform. Build high-quality data infrastructure such as blockchain and corpora, build urban blockchain infrastructure, create a blockchain-as-a-service (BaaS) platform and universal cross-chain functions, facilitate the trusted cross-border flow of data, and promote high-quality corpus data Element construction.

▌Perplexity AI filed for merger with TikTok’s U.S. business

According to Bloomberg, Perplexity AI, a technology company backed by Bezos and Nvidia, filed for merger with TikTok’s U.S. business. Hide from the impending closure. TikTok's parent company ByteDance was ordered by the United States to sell off or shut down by Sunday. The deal will allow ByteDance's investors, including heavyweights such as Sequoia Capital and SoftBank, to retain their stakes.

▌Vitalik: The Ethereum Foundation is making major changes in its leadership structure

Vitalik posted on social media that the Ethereum Foundation (hereinafter referred to as EF) is undergoing major changes to its leadership structure and has been doing so for about a year. Some of these reforms have already been implemented and made public, while others are still ongoing. Current goals that EF will strive to achieve include: · Increasing the level of technical expertise among leadership; · Improving two-way communication and connections between leadership and ecosystem participants (old and new) EF’s role is to support users (individuals and institutions ), developers, wallets, L2; · Introducing new talents to improve execution capabilities and speed; · More actively support application builders and ensure that important values ​​and inalienable rights (especially privacy, open source, censorship resistance) exist for users (including at the application layer); · Continue to increase the use of decentralized and privacy technologies and the Ethereum chain, including for payments and fund management

▌Jupiter’s total transaction volume exceeds US$2 trillion

Dune data shows , the total transaction volume of Solana ecological DEX aggregator Jupiter exceeds US$2 trillion and is currently US$2,077.4 billion. According to DeFiLlama data, Jupiter TVL exceeded US$2.8 billion and is currently at US$2.829 billion, a record high.

▌El Salvador’s current Bitcoin holdings exceed 6,000 BTC

Mempool data shows that El Salvador currently holds 6,032.183 BTC, which is approximately US$628 million.

▌BlackRock currently holds approximately 559,500 Bitcoins

BlackRock officially updated the spot Bitcoin ETF position information. As of January 16, BlackRock IBIT holds There are 559,564.44 Bitcoins, which exceeds 2% of the total Bitcoin supply. The market value of its holdings exceeds $56.22 billion.

▌ Morgan Stanley Chief Xing Ziqiang: The economic impact helped the economy exceed expectations in the fourth quarter of last year, and it is expected to continue to increase this year

After the GDP data was released, Morgan Stanley Chief Economist Xing Ziqiang said that this shows that A series of incremental adjustments since late September last year have achieved results, and the economic performance in the fourth quarter of last year was better than market expectations. Talking about the reasons, Xing Ziqiang pointed out that on the one hand, trade-in subsidies for consumer goods have been effective, with sales of home appliances and cars performing well in October and November 2024. On the other hand, exports have performed strongly since September last year. He said that economic indicators in the fourth quarter of last year were better than expected, but continued efforts are needed to achieve success over time. "At present, it seems that we will gradually increase the amount in 2025." In Xing Ziqiang's view, more powerful measures may be launched in the future. Specifically, the first is to increase the fiscal deficit; the second is to focus more on consumption and social security, not just the construction and investment ends in the traditional sense; the third is to promptly use the central bank's balance sheet or the central bank to take the initiative in a timely manner Deal with risks.

▌What is a teardrop attack in encryption?

In the cryptocurrency environment, teardrop attacks often target the decentralized nature of blockchain platforms. Even if they don’t target the blockchain’s cryptographic algorithms, disrupting the underlying peer-to-peer network infrastructure that cryptocurrencies rely on could lead to service disruptions, loss of funds, and loss of user trust. Attackers can interfere with the consensus process, transaction validation, or node-to-node communications by focusing on specific nodes or servers. This can lead to network fragmentation, processing delays or even complete outages.

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